

Hisao Egawa as Daruman, a rockhopper penguin frequently seen fishing.Kazuya Tatekabe as Alan, a gorilla skilled in enka.Yūji Ueda as Sakurajima, an anteater skilled at chanson.Yasuhiro Takato as Saruo, a monkey who enjoys weight training.Yurika Hino as Bianca, a wolf implied to have been in a relationship with Apollo.Masaki Terasoma as Apollo, a eagle whom Bianca seems to admire.Takatoshi Kaneko as Albert, an alligator who is friends with Yū.Yū Kobayashi as Yū, a human boy who lives in a neighboring village.Fumiko Orikasa as Sally, an elephant who befriends Ai.Misato Fukuen as Bouquet, a cat who befriends Ai.Yui Horie as Ai, a human girl who moves to the village.
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See also: Characters in the Animal Crossing series Ai then wins the Winter Festival contest for the best decoration, leaving her feeling for the first time as a true member of the village. The injured UFO reunites with its group, and as they depart, create a constellation in the night sky resembling Ai. The missing piece turns out to be an injured UFO, one of a larger group that was attracted to the village due to the pattern formed by Ai's lit-up pine trees. The five retrieve the missing piece and return to Johnny, who they discover had already obtained them all. Sally then appears and helps unseal the cave. The team tries to move the boulder, but it proves too heavy for them to move. The entrance is blocked up by a large boulder from a recent event.
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Ai, Bouquet, Yū, and Albert head towards a cave, where Yū claims to have seen one of the pieces fall. Johnny, who had planted the bottles in order to make an entrance dressed as an alien, asks the villagers to help locate some of the pieces that broke off his ship during the descent. A spaceship crash-lands in the middle of the forest, and Johnny, a seagull, emerges. Winter comes, and all the pine trees that Ai has planted have fully grown and are decorated with Christmas lights. Bouquet apologizes to Ai for her harsh reaction. Sally sends a letter of apology to Ai, explaining that a goodbye would have been too upsetting, and encourages her to embark on her own personal journey. Bianca scolds Ai, and tells her that she should be happy as a friend for Sally Ai responds that she is happy for Sally, but is sad that Sally never told her she was moving, and leaves the café. Bossa plays, as the song reminds her of Sally.

Ai goes to the museum café, and ends up crying when K.K. Ai becomes heartbroken, learning that Sally has moved away to pursue a career in fashion design. Ai complies with the messages and begins planting the trees, half-believing that the messages may have been placed by aliens.ĭuring autumn, Bouquet scolds Ai for not attending Sally's farewell party, which comes as a surprise. Ai begins to find a series of anonymous messages in bottles that state that a miracle will occur during the upcoming Winter Festival if pine trees are planted in specific points of the village. After being put to work by Tom Nook to deliver goods, Ai befriends four of the village's residents: Bouquet, Sally, Albert, and a human boy named Yū, participating in several activities. The film opens with Ai, an 11-year-old girl, moving into the Animal Village during the summer. Dōbutsu no Mori was not released outside Japan, with Nintendo of America stating in 2007 that they had no plans for an English release. The film retains the theme of the video games, and centers on an 11-year-old girl named Ai who moves into a village populated with animals where she works to make new friends and find her own dreams. The film opened in theaters in Japan on December 16, 2006, where it went on to earn ¥1.7 billion (approximately $16,216,000) at the box office. Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori is a 2006 Japanese animated film directed by Jōji Shimura and based on the Animal Crossing video game series.
